xdd

xdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stagentic/stagentic-xdd. It costs 37 tokens per session (146 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-driven development guide for writing software tests before changing the code they check. TDD means first writing a test that fails, then changing the production code until it passes, and finally refactoring it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding or changing production code or tests while following a test-first workflow.
Why use it?
It gives a fixed order for development and helps ensure that a test fails for the intended reason. It also recommends a simple implementation approach called Fake-It when making the test pass.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the stagentic-xdd plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stagentic/stagentic-xdd/xdd
Any agent
npx skills add stagentic/stagentic-xdd --skill xdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stagentic/stagentic-xdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install stagentic-xdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for xdd

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stagentic/stagentic-xdd/xdd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stagentic/stagentic-xdd/xdd.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 146 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00037 $0.00146
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00073
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00015

Measured 4d ago against content hash 48c2577daf63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xdd scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

xdd-plugin/skills/xdd/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Model Corrections

Your model has some misunderstandings of TDD, which you should override with the following:

Always Write the Test First

After the test is written, then change the production code so it fails for the right reason

Failing for the Right Reason

Where values are being compared in the assertion, the returned value must be of the same type.

Making a Test Pass

Make a failing test pass using 'Fake-It'.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 21 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 48c2577daf63

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xdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository stagentic/stagentic-xdd (5 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 146 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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